The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-28
that God, who has ever been Just, may
etill care for you, and when the end comes
crown you with glory that meyer fades In

caugo that never dies" ~
When Mr.. Davis received this badge
from tho hands Of Congressman Blount'a
son, the old man wept like child and
said: My young couutrymen, am proud
to know that you hold In reverence the
memory and principles Of your isthsrs."[ {
Tx.M1SisrKR JAcHsoN's RADlp SPEECH.
Last night there was q great torchlight
denomination In honor OF Mr.. Davis.
General Henry jackson, ex.Minister to
Mexico,tn iaupeech to the veterans said
l"CoNrsDERArE VErRRANs-There stands
upon the soil Of Georgia tho dlstinguished
Miasleslppian who, within the Lie Of tho
present generation, wag the eo.called
traitor leader Of q Bo.called los. cause,
We, Confederate veterans, rolics OF the
armies which fought for that cause, arc
here TO meet him, to move before hiri-in
the pride and pomp OF no Roman triumph,
It 10 true. but bending our necks to our
Roman yoke Of subjugation-by invitation
oil the State Of Georgia, speaking through
her duly empowered officials, all have
come. Is 4 iTg
"Bohold msjsstic truth revealing her.
self State sovereignty is not dead.
Georgia ia "a sovereignty sti!l, and calla
upon her psople to glory with her today.
Her glory Is In her history. Her 'history
Ia the memory Of her dead snd this day Ia
consecra!ed. to herr Confederate dead.
They weregullty Of no tresson to her. To
whom, then, would they be traitors
Where shall We geek their higher sover.
eign 2 Shall Te find him in the Federal
Constitution7 Then thero was sover.
eign smitten to earth by traitor hands,
trgmplcd In the dust by traitor feet, bat
the bands and the feet were not theirs.
Do we hold that the men who fought
against them vera traitors? Not at all.
They, too, wore loyal to their sovereign.
The Constitution vas but treaty betTee
high contracting sovereign parties,
WITHOUT ONE ATOM or SOVEREIGNTY
in itself, i since with impunity, through
long years of painful agitation, 1t was bro.
ken by the sovereign parties Of the North.
They enacted into crime the mere attempt
OF Federal power to enforce it5 decreos
within the dominions, and because, after
decades OF endurance aa patient sa 1t was
delusive, the sovereign parties Of the
South declined to accept their revolution
sry will in permanent place Of the Con-
stitutlon. The compaGt-breaking cover
eigns OF the North, with numbers over
whelming and material unboundsd, made
aggressive war upon them to force them to
accept 1t.
"The world has been told that The peo.
pie oithe South made the war to psrpetu.
ate African slavery. This is false. They
did not create, institute, nor do thay no "
wish to restore 1t. Tie principle foT
which We fought, the only principle Of
government expressive enough to NEST
the requirements of adyaneing- civilizs.
tlcn, made OF late by Glsdstone's Gle.
qrence 80 familiar to European thought,
wss American born. S E--
WHERE; He PLACES LINCOLN.
"Rsd With the blood Of Confederate
heroes, moist with the tears Of Confeder.
ate widows ard orphans, eastward shall it
roll, carrying with it the blessed light OF
tho Christian civilization all around the
globe, and 80 surely as it moves it shall
bring the day Of triumph.
"1n that trirmphEl procession Abraham
Lincoln shall not move "a the rishttul
President. but Jefferson Davis, tbs 90.
called traitor, leader Of e Eo-cslled lcet
CAUSE. .s7.-lss-sz, 5.55.5....s, Il,
ave, as Confedereter, cen echo from
our hsarts the patriotic cry of Wabater
the greet, Thanks bsto God thot I, too,.
am an American citizen Bat il the go.
called new South be base surrender Of
the old, false confession, meauly false, Of
shame in our past, shame in our sires,
sbems in our dead, which none but tho
silliess fool can hcnently teol, then with
oil Of the power given to rs by the God Of
Truth, we cry, 'AyIant, falss sorth
Avaunt, rotton trunk upon o curst root,
thy Unit ln11at trrn 10 aahea - ~. .---.--